Elliott & Thompson Autumn 2024 Catalogue

NEW TITLES

JULY–DECEMBER 2024

ABOUT US

Awarded London Small Press of the Year 2022 and a Regional Finalist in the British Book Awards Small Press category in 2024, Elliott & Thompson publish original and bestselling non-fiction and carefully selected fiction, producing beautiful books that inform, inspire and bring enjoyment to a wide range of readers. Our books include the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling Geography series from Tim Marshall, Julia Boyd’s top three Sunday Times bestseller Travellers in the Third Reich and A Village in the Third Reich, as well as the hugely popular Dempsey/Devlin thriller series by Tony Kent. The publisher also boasts an award-winning nature writing list, including James Aldred’s Wainwright Prize-winning Goshawk Summer, Lev Parikian’s Royal Society Prize-shortlisted Taking Flight, and Nancy Campbell’s Acklerley Prize-winning memoir Thunderstone.

WELCOME TO OUR AUTUMN 2024 CATALOGUE

Elliott & Thompson is a small publisher with big ambitions. With just a handful of dedicated staff, we create bestsellers and industry-leading campaigns. At Elliott & Thompson, every book and every author counts.

In 2023 we nurtured relationships with retailers large and small, and received outstanding reviews and awards recognition for authors who we have long championed – including Tim Marshall and his latest book The Future of Geography. We are very excited to announce that in October 2024, we will publish Marshall’s Prisoners of Geography: The Quiz Book, an engaging collection of questions and puzzles to test your geopolitcal knowledge, based on the internationally bestselling Prisoners of Geography (2 million copies sold worldwide).

In autumn 2024, we will also be expanding our arts and culture list with the release of John Suchet’s In Search of Beethoven and Dr Bendor Grosvenor’s The Invention of British Art, a fully illustrated, captivating story of British art from 10,000 bce to the 19th century, addressing why it has been critically overlooked and what makes a work of art truly British.

We bolster our history list with James Crossland’s Rogue Agent, the first biography of ‘British Agent’ and war propogandist Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, and bestselling author Paul French’s examination of a controversial period in the early life of Wallis Simpson – Her Lotus Year

We look forward to releasing these new books into the world and working closely with you on getting them into the hands of readers. We are also delighted to welcome two new members of the Elliott & Thompson team – Katie Bond as Publisher and Minna Fry as Associate Publisher.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT OUR BOOKS

‘A superb survey of planetary politics’ Sunday Times on The Future of Geography by Tim Marshall

‘Packed with deception and espionage . . . Kent has become the British Baldacci, and there can be no higher praise.’

Daily Mail on The Shadow Network by Tony Kent

‘Rich, multi-layered and deeply meaningful . . . It will transport you to another place and time and bring a new, nuanced understanding of our coldest season.’

Resurgence & Ecologist on Nature Tales for Winter Nights by Nancy Campbell

‘The deliciously simple conceit – pop facts from every day of the year –lets Lewis roam wide and free, to fascinating effect.’

Daily Mail on Don’t Stop the Music by Justin Lewis

‘A candid memoir of a fraught time in office provides a useful record of high level negotiation in Iran and Ukraine’

Guardian on And Then What? by Catherine Ashton

AWARDS & PRIZES

NEW TITLES

Prisoners of Geography: The Quiz Book

Tim Marshall

Based on the international bestseller, an engaging collection of questions and puzzles to test your global knowledge

Pub date: 3 October 2024

Price: £16.99

ISBN: 9781783968084

epub: 9781783968299

Genre: Politics / Geography / Quiz

Format: Trade paperback

Dimensions: 234x153 mm

Extent: 272 pages

Rights: World

Tim Marshall’s bestselling series of geopolitical explainers have been a runaway success. Breaking down global events with sharp insights and wit, he has made complex ideas accessible to millions around the globe. Now readers have a chance to test their world knowledge, with Prisoners of Geography: The Quiz Book.

Covering every area of the globe and containing a mix of history, politics and geography, the book will contain an engaging mixture of multiplechoice questions, puzzles, word games and maps designed to entertain, challenge and inform.

Praise for Prisoners of Geography: ‘Like having a light shone on your understanding

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. . I can’t think of another book that explains the world situation so well’

Nicolas

Lezard, Evening Standard

Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than 30 years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News, and before that was working for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from 40 countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Israel. He is the author of the No. 1 Sunday Times bestsellers Prisoners of Geography, The Power of Geography and The Future of Geography; the illustrated edition Prisoners of Geography, shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year; as well as Divided; Worth Dying For; and Shadowplay

SAMPLE QUESTIONS

• What are the names of the thirteen British colonies that will eventually become the first incarnation of the United States of America?

• It is April 1803, and representatives of Napoleon Bonaparte’s and Thomas Jefferson’s governments have struck a deal to acquire a territory, which at a stroke will effectively double the nominal size of the United States. What is its name?

a) The Southwest Expansion

b) The Northwest Expansion

c) The Louisiana Purchase

d) The Missouri Compromise

• Which US state has an economy bigger than every country in the world other than Germany, China, Japan and the USA itself?

• Can you spot the other name for a key 1819 negotiation between the US and Spain known as Onis-Adams Treaty contained in the anagram below?

A SECTARIAN TENT, TENTHLY TORN

• And which state was won through it?

LARD OF I

• Which country did President Obama describe as ‘no more than a regional power’ in 2014?

a) Russia

b) North Korea

c) Saudi Arabia

d) Turkey

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Radical Rest

Evie Muir

A bold, energetic book about the malaise of burnout in our society – and how to heal for a more hopeful future.

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Pub date: 18 July 2024

Price: £16.99

ISBN: 9781783967650

epub: 9781783967667

Genre: Self-help / Health

Format: Hardback with jacket

Dimensions: 216x135 mm

Extent: 272 pages

Rights: World

We’re burnt out. Exhausted; anxiety-ridden; over-worked and under-resourced. The ‘solution’ cannot lie in self-care, yoga retreats or the odd massage when this bone-numbing fatigue is a symptom of a desperately unhealthy society. We cannot simply ‘fix ourselves’ under a system that demands and takes so much of us. What is needed is a complete reimagining that puts a thriving life of abundance first and foremost.

Through a Black Feminist, abolitionist and natureallied lens, Evie Muir reimagines what a world of true rest – radical rest – would look like. Looking to activists and cultural influences past and present for guidance, she explores the core emotions associated with burnout, from rage, grief and anxiety to the hope, joy and plenty that deep change can bring.

Bold, vulnerable and deeply honest, Radical Rest is a blueprint for change and a salve for the soul. Step in and open the door to a hopeful and healed future.

Evie Muir is a domestic abuse survivor and qualified domestic abuse specialist, writer and the founder of Peaks of Colour – a Peak District-based nature-for-healing community group, by and for people of colour. Her work sits on the intersections of gendered, racial and land justice, and seeks to nurture survivors’ joy, rest, hope and imagination as abolitionist praxis. As a Northern freelance writer, she’s passionate about the liberating form of writing as healing and resistance.

Rogue Agent

James Crossland

A rich, colourful and compelling history of an unconventional hero from the world’s darkest decades.

Pub date: 19 September 2024

Price: £25

ISBN: 9781783968046

epub: 9781783968053

Genre: Politics / History / Biography

Format: Hardback with jacket

Dimensions: 234x153 mm

Extent: 304 pages

Rights: World

Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart was an impressive figure in his time: a diplomat, intelligence agent, journalist, author and propagandist. A man who influential press baron Lord Beaverbook claimed ‘could well have been prime minister’ – and yet who died near destitute and mostly unremembered.

Rogue Agent puts Lockhart back in the spotlight, chronicling the life of this gifted yet habitually flawed upstart in its entirety, from his time as Britain’s ‘Agent’ in Moscow to leading the secret body responsible for disinformation in the Second World War. Along the way we see Lockhart, flaws and all, from his many affairs to crippling bouts of self-doubt and depression, and a hedonistic lifestyle that left him in a state of perpetual debt.

Exploring Lockhart’s contributions to psychological warfare, his unorthodox mind and his penchant for long nights and dangerous women, Rogue Agent restores this unconventional hero to the historical record, while explaining why he never fulfilled the potential others saw in him.

James Crossland is a Reader in International History at Liverpool John Moores University and the author of three books: Britain and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1939–1945; War, Law and Humanity: The Campaign to Control Warfare, 1853–1914 and The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Terrorism. Crossland has also written extensively on the history of warfare, intelligence, fake news, terrorism and propaganda for popular history magazines.

The Invention of British Art

Bendor Grosvenor

A provocative, captivating and highly accessible story of British art from 10,000 bce to the 19th century.

Pub date: 10 October 2024

Price: £40

ISBN: 9781783968091

Genre: Art / History / Gift

Format: Hardback with jacket

Four colour throughout

Dimensions: 246x189 mm

Extent: 384 pages

Rights: World

In 1771 the art historian Horace Walpole wondered why Britain had ‘produced so few good painters of landscape’. Outside Britain, only one gallery in the whole world is dedicated to British art, in Yale. Few people visit it.

Why is British art so overlooked? Is it because Britain itself has never been enthusiastic about art? Is it, quite simply, bad? Or has British art suffered an injustice? None of these questions can be answered without a frank reassessment of the history of British art, those who made it, and who it was made for.

Leading art historian Bendor Grosvenor is taking on that challenge. Beautifully illustrated throughout, The Invention of British Art looks at key moments, objects, and individuals from each era, from folk art to the role of female artists, from the influences of invaders to the territories of the British Empire. It explores how the art from these isles was shaped by the world in which the artists lived, and why – above all – it took so long for it to actually become ‘British’.

Dr Bendor Grosvenor is an art historian specialising in Old Masters and British pictures. He is best known as the co-presenter of the BBC series Britain’s Lost Masterpieces, and has discovered a number of important paintings by prominent artists. In 2014 Apollo Magazine included him in their ‘40 Under 40’ feature, and in 2017 the Daily Telegraph named him as one of the 500 Most Influential People in Britain.

In Search of Beethoven

John Suchet

A moving, personal account of John Suchet’s lifelong quest to understand Beethoven the man

From the bestselling author of Beethoven: The Man Revealed, My Beethoven Journey is John Suchet’s latest and most personal book dedicated to the life of this extraordinary composer. Part biography, part memoir, part travelogue, Suchet draws on his own life and career as a foreign correspondent and news anchor to show how Beethoven’s music has accompanied him through the best and worst of times. It was with him as a music-loving and adventurous teenager, as a journalist entering Beirut in the grip of civil war, and as he has continued to explore the old cities of Bonn and Vienna, in search of the man behind the music.

In this novel and compelling book, we see Beethoven brought vividly – and sometimes painfully – to life. Suchet traces Beethoven’s footsteps from his early years in Bonn to his dying days in Vienna, taking us on a journey both literal and symbolic, as he uses his own experience as a Beethoven aficionado to demonstrate the lifechanging power of great music.

Pub date: 17 October 2024

Price: £25

ISBN: 9781783968107

epub: 9781783968114

Genre: Classical Music / Biography

Format: Hardback with jacket

Dimensions: 234x153 mm

Extent: 272 pages

Rights: World

John Suchet OBE is a bestselling author, journalist, radio and TV presenter. He was the voice of morning radio on Classic FM for almost a decade and before that, he was one of the UK’s best-known television journalists and newscasters, regularly presenting ITN’s flagship News at Ten for nearly 20 years. A recognised authority on Beethoven, he is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Beethoven: The Man Revealed, as well as biographies of Mozart, Strauss, Verdi and Tchaikovsky.

A Winter Dictionary

Paul Anthony Jones

A linguistic celebration of all aspects of the festive season, from wintry weather to Christmas celebrations

Pub date: 24 October 2024

Price: £16.99

ISBN: 9781783968237

epub: 9781783968244

Genre: Language, Gift, Holidays and seasonal interest

Format: Hardback with jacket

Dimensions: 216x135 mm

Extent: 240 pages

Rights: World English

As the nights draw in and the cold descends, the winter world emerges – and with it an incredible array of words that superbly capture the season.

From frost-dogs (tiny frozen particles of falling snow) and Stepmother’s breath (a sudden cold snap) to hibernaculum (a winter refuge during the winter months) and crapulent (feeling the aftereffects of overindulgence), Paul Anthony Jones delves into the origins of these rare, fascinating and forgotten words, opening up a whole new way of describing the winter months.

Whether you’re keeping cosy in front of the fire, warding off the winter blues or throwing yourself into the party season, A Winter Dictionary is the perfect way to while away the snow-laden days.

Praise for Why Is This a Question?

‘As entertaining as it is engrossing . . . this book will delight logophiles everywhere, and create many new ones.’

John Banville

Paul Anthony Jones runs the popular @HaggardHawks Twitter feed, blog and YouTube channel, revealing daily word facts to 95,000 engaged followers. His books include: Why Is This a Question?, The Cabinet of Calm, Word Drops, The Accidental Dictionary, The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities, Around the World in 80 Words, as well as several other books on trivia and language. He appears regularly in the media and has contributed to the Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries online. He lives in Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Owls! Owls! Owls!

Polly Atkin

A nocturnal love song to owls and a stunning meditation on learning to listen in a world full of noise

Pub date: 7 November 2024

Price: £16.99

ISBN: 9781783968145

epub: 9781783968152

Genre: Memoir, Natural History, Birds, Gift

Format: Hardback with jacket

Dimensions: 216x135 mm

Extent: 224 pages

Rights: World

In the woods above Polly Atkin’s home in Grasmere, Cumbria live the tawny owls she calls her neighbours. Each night, they come down to her cottage at dusk, calling out as night falls – in particular a trio of owlets she watches grow from fledglings to young adults in 2023.

As the antics of the owl siblings develop – their capacity to play, to bicker, to share and to protect – they encourage her to think differently about some of the big needs of all our lives: solitude and companionship, individuality and belonging, rest and retreat. And into the frame step questions about all sorts of relationships, from how we feel when in darkness to our entanglement with the internet and its ability to connect us across continents.

Owls! Owls! Owls! is a love song to owls and a reflection on what makes them, and us, unique and distinctive. It’s a call to find joy in unexpected places and times. It is a lesson in learning to listen – really listen – in a world full of noise.

Polly Atkin is a poet and writer. She has published three poetry pamphlets and two collections –Basic Nest Architecture and Much With Body. Her non-fiction includes Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth, a Barbellionlonglisted biography, and a memoir exploring place, belonging and disability, Some Of Us Just Fall. In 2023 she and her partner took ownership of historic Grasmere bookshop Sam Read Bookseller.

COVER TO COME

Her Lotus Year

Paul French

China, the Roaring Twenties and the making of Wallis Simpson

Pub date: 14 November 2024

Price: £25

ISBN: 9781783968183

epub: 9781783968190

Genre: Biography / History

Format: Hardback with jacket

Dimensions: 234x153 mm

Extent: 304 pages

Rights: UK & Commonwealth

Wallis Simpson’s year in China was used to damn her in the eyes of the British Establishment. The government’s ‘China Dossier’ portrayed her as sordid, debauched, influenced by foreign agents, and unfit to marry a king. But little was really known about how she spent that mysterious period in her life – until now.

Her Lotus Year takes a headlong dive into Wallis’s early, formative years – and into the chaotic and thrilling China of the 1920s – to explore the untold, colourful origin story of a woman too often maligned by history. It portrays a person of tremendous courage who overcame many challenges, from domestic violence to riots, to establish her confidence and independence, and forge friendships that would last a lifetime. She emerged from that year as the elegant, stylish, cosmopolitan and worldly woman for whom a king gave up his throne.

‘Magisterial, beautifully written and impeccably researched.’ Alexander Larman, author of The Windsors at War

Paul French was born in London and lived and worked in Shanghai for many years. His book Midnight in Peking was a New York Times bestseller and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. He received the Mystery Writers’ of America Edgar award for Best Fact Crime and a Crime Writers’ Association (UK) Dagger award for nonfiction. Both Midnight in Peking and his most recent book City of Devils are currently in development for film.

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OUT IN PAPERBACK

Road to Surrender

Evan Thomas

A riveting, immersive account of the agonising decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan

Pub date: 4 July 2024

Price: £10.99

ISBN: 9781783967971

epub: 9781783967308

Audio: 9781783967339

Genre: Military History / Second World War

History / Politics

Format: Paperback

Dimensions: 198x129 mm

Extent: 336 pages

Rights: UK & Commonwealth

Three men were intimately involved with America’s decision to drop the atomic bomb—and Japan’s decision to surrender: Henry Stimson, the American Secretary of War, who found himself tasked with the unimaginable decision of determining whether to deploy the bomb; Gen. Carl “Tooey” Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in the Pacific, who supervised the planes that dropped the bombs; and Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo, the only one in Emperor Hirohito’s Supreme War Council who believed even before the bombs were dropped that Japan should surrender.

To bring these critical events to vivid life, bestselling author Evan Thomas draws on the diaries of Stimson, Togo and Spaatz, contemplating the immense weight of their historic decision. In Road to Surrender, a suspenseful, impeccably researched history, Thomas lays out the behind-the-scenes thoughts, feelings, motivations, and decisionmaking of three people who changed history.

‘Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant’ Sinclair McKay

Evan Thomas is the author of ten books, including the New York Times bestsellers John Paul Jones, Sea Of Thunder, and First: Sandra Day O’Connor. Thomas was a writer, correspondent, and editor for thirty-three years at Time and Newsweek, including ten years as Newsweek’s Washington bureau chief. He appears regularly on many TV and radio talk shows. Thomas has taught at Harvard and Princeton.

Politics, But Better

Tatton Spiller

From the founder of Simple Politics comes a manifesto for rebuilding a more hopeful Britain

Pub date: 15 August 2024

Price: £10.99

ISBN: 9781783968282

epub: 9781783967537

Genre: Politics / Current Affairs

Format: Paperback

Dimensions: 198x129 mm

Extent: 240 pages

Rights: World English

Strikes across the country. A spiralling cost-ofliving crisis. Accusations of bullying in the House of Commons. Our politics and our democracy appear to be fundamentally broken. But that doesn’t mean that all hope is lost.

Politics, But Better will look at the very fabric of our system to see what improvements can be made. Exploring twenty-six issues in UK politics, from A to Z – including censorship, elections, insults and mental health – it clearly lays out the problems and challenges we face, and puts forward possible solutions. Promoting open debate, tolerance and compassion, it encourages us to rethink the fundamental ways we do things, to question the status quo, and to chart a path towards a more hopeful future. Politics is about improving the world – and we can do better.

‘Most books on politics aren’t an easy read . . . this is!’

Vicky McClure

Tatton Spiller is the author of The Breakdown and the founder of Simple Politics, which has been helping people engage with politics for the best part of a decade, with over a million social media followers. When politics gets complex, people turn to him and his team. Tatton talks to as many people as possible about politics, on TV & radio (including BBC Two, Sky News, 5Live), with live audiences, in schools, on podcasts and more. With a background in classroom teaching, journalism, education at the Houses of Parliament and event production, nobody writes about politics like he does.

Reset Elaine Kasket

A leading psychologist and tech expert shows us how to rethink our relationship with technology for a happier life

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Pub date: 22 August 2024

Price: £10.99

ISBN: 9781783967834

epub: 9781783967575

Genre: Psychology / Technology / Self-Help

Format: Paperback

Dimensions: 198x129 mm

Extent: 304 pages

Rights: World

Join psychologist Dr Elaine Kasket as she takes us on a journey to rethink technology – and tune into what really matters.

* Do your screentime reports make you wonder what you’re missing out on in ‘real’ life?

* Have you ever phubbed your partner on a date night?

* Will your kids forgive your sharenting when they are old enough to understand digital consent?

In a digital world full of distraction and noise, it’s easy to lose sight of the relationships and people that really matter. Yet as this transformative book shows, it is entirely possible at every stage of our lives to make positive choices about how we share our time with those we know, love and trust.

Armed with Elaine’s insights, you won’t just think differently about technology. You’ll feel happier and more empowered along the way.

‘A critical reminder that, at every stage of life, we get to choose our relationship with technology.’ Luke Burgis, author of Wanting

Elaine Kasket is a psychologist, keynote speaker and coach, and an expert on the modern challenges and opportunities brought about by technology. Her previous book All the Ghosts in the Machine examined what happens to our data when we die. Elaine is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

On the Brink

Penelope Campling

An urgent, insightful assessment of the crisis we face with our mental health services – and how we can do better

Pub date: 29 August 2024

Price: £10.99

ISBN: 9781783967001

epub: 9781783966516

Genre: Memoir / Psychology / Mental Health Services

Format: Paperback

Dimensions: 198x129 mm

Extent: 320 pages

Rights: World

Over the course of her forty-year career, psychiatrist and psychotherapist Penelope Campling has worked with patients from all walks of life, from survivors of abuse to ICU doctors struggling under the strain of Covid-19. She has seen many positive changes in how we approach mental health – and yet she is increasingly troubled by the state of our health services. Too often those who most need help are being failed by a system that cannot adequately care for them.

In On the Brink Campling takes us into the therapy room, offering a unique insight into how we treat those in distress. She shows us how the progress made in a more optimistic era of psychiatry is fast being eroded; how our struggling healthcare system often fails those who need our support; and how crucial it is in today’s uncertain world that we do not turn away.

‘Deeply thoughtful and compassionate’

Susie Orbach

‘A book with the power to move and inform’

Gwen Adshead

Penelope Campling is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, and a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. For twenty years, she ran the Leicester NHS service for people diagnosed with personality disorder, and she is the co-author of Intelligent Kindness: Rehabilitating the Welfare State (CUP, 2020). Now retired from the NHS, she continues to lecture and campaign, and works independently.

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Luck of the Draw

Frank Murphy

The epic true story of an American hero who flew during the Second World War

Pub date: 5 September 2024

Price: £12.99

ISBN: 9781783968039

epub: 9781783967360

Audio: 9781783967391

Genre: Military History, Second World War, Politics

Format: Paperback

Dimensions: 198x129 mm

Extent: 480 pages

Rights: UK & Commonwealth

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile skies over occupied Europe. The final price was staggering. 4,300 B-17s and B-24s failed to return; nearly 28,000 men were taken prisoner or interned in a neutral country, and a further 26,000 made the ultimate sacrifice.

Luck of the Draw is more than a war story. It’s the incredible, inspiring story of Frank Murphy, one of the few survivors from the 100th Bombardment Group, who cheated death for months in a German POW camp after being shot out of his B-17 Flying Fortress. His bravery earned him the Prisoner of War Medal, the Purple Heart, and the Air Medal, and his story is featured in the Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks TV series Masters of the Air.

‘In the pursuit of authenticity, of accurate history and undeniable courage, no words matter more than, ‘I was there.’ Read Luck of the Draw and the life of Frank Murphy and ponder this: how did those boys do such things?’

Tom Hanks

Frank Murphy survived months in a German POW camp after being shot out of his B-17 Flying Fortress. His bravery earned him the Prisoner of War Medal, the Purple Heart, and the Air Medal. The incredible stories of Murphy and his 8th Air Force’s 100th Bomb Group is featured in the Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks TV series, Masters of the Air

The Language of Trees

Katie Holten

A stunning international collaboration that reveals how trees make our world and rewild our lives

Pub date: 12 September 2024

Price: £12.99

ISBN: 9781783967810

epub: 9781783967490

Genre: Nature / Gift

Format: Paperback

Dimensions: 198x129 mm

Extent: 320 pages

Rights: UK & Commonwealth

The Language of Trees is a beautifully illustrated love letter to trees, filled with prose, poetry and art from over fifty collaborators, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Macfarlane, Elizabeth Kolbert, Amitav Ghosh, Richard Powers, Gaia Vince, Tacita Dean, and Robin Wall Kimmerer.

In this deeply thoughtful collection, artist Katie Holten gifts readers her visual Tree Alphabet and uses it to masterfully translate and illuminate these pieces from some of the world’s most exciting writers and artists, activists and ecologists.

Holten guides us on a journey from prehistoric cave paintings and creation myths to the death of a 3,500-year-old cypress tree, from Tree Clocks in Mongolia and forest fragments in the Amazon to the language of fossil poetry. In doing so, she unearths a new way of seeing the natural beauty that surrounds us and creates an urgent reminder of what could happen if we allow it to slip away.

‘Immersive, celebratory and timely.’

The Observer

Katie Holten is an artist and activist, born in Ireland and living in New York City and Ardee, Ireland. In 2003 she represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale. She has had solo exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the New Orleans Museum of Art and Dublin City Gallery. Her work has appeared in the Irish Times, New York Times and frieze. She is a visiting lecturer at the New School of the Anthopocene.

Nature Tales for Winter Nights

Edited by Nancy Campbell

A treasure trove of wintry tales from across the globe, bringing a little magic and wonder to every cold night

Pub date: 3 October 2024

Price: £10.99

ISBN: 9781783967469

epub: 9781783967438

Genre: Nature / Gift

Format: Paperback

Dimensions: 198x129 mm

Extent: 224 pages

Rights: World

As the evenings draw in – a time of reckoning, rest and restoration – settle down with this seasonal collection. Nature Tales for Winter Nights is a treasure trove of tales from across the natural world that puts winter – rural, wild and urban –under the microscope and draws us in close.

From the late days of autumn, through deepest cold, and towards the bright hope of spring, arctic traveller and poet Nancy Campbell brings together a collection of familiar names and dazzling new discoveries. Here are Inuit legends, Beth Chatto’s garden and Tove Jansson’s ‘The Iceberg’; artists’ private letters, Anne Frank’s diary and fireside stories told by indigenous voices. Join the naturalist Linneaus travelling on horseback in Lapland, frost fairs on the Thames and witch-hazel harvesting in Connecticut.

A hibernation companion, this book will transport you across time and country, bringing a little magic and wonder to every winter night.

‘A luminous collection of fascinating seasonal tales that explore everything from Tove Jansson’s childhood to polar bird myths.’ Waterstones

Nancy Campbell received the Royal Geographical Society Ness Award in 2020 for a decade-long creative response to the polar environment. Her books include Thunderstone, awarded the Ackerley Prize in 2023, Fifty Words for Snow, a Waterstones Book of the Month, The Library of Ice, and the poetry collection Disko Bay

CHRISTMAS GIFTS

Thinking about Christmas already? We’ve got you covered with a selection of books perfect for your 2024 gift guides.

The Shadow Network

by Tony Kent

How do you take down an enemy when no one believes they exist?

Barrister Michael Devlin and Agent Joe Dempsey are reunited to track down The Monk, a mysterious foreign agent with a fearsome reputation.

PB 6 June 2024

‘The British Jack Reacher’ Sunday Times

A Winter Dictionary

by Paul Anthony Jones

Expert linguist Paul Anthony Jones delves into the origins of rare and forgotten words for the festive season, from wintry weather to Christmas celebrations.

HB 24 October 2024

TEST YOUR WORLD KNOWLEDGE WITH 300 QUIZ QUESTIONS

Prisoners of Geography: The Quiz Book

by Tim Marshall

Tim Marshall’s bestselling series of geopolitical explainers have been a runaway success. Now readers have a chance to test their geopolitical knowledge. Covering every area of the globe and containing a mix of history, politics and geography, this fun and engaging book will contain a mixture of multiple-choice questions, puzzles, word games and maps – perfect to keep the family entertained at Christmas.

‘A first-rate collector of linguistic curios’ TLS

PB 3 October 2024

Don’t Stop the Music

by Justin Lewis

Notable events, surprising nuggets and entertaining coincidences from music history –collated by music expert Justin Lewis. The perfect gift for any fan of popular music.

PB 30 May 2024

‘A deft and delightful pop almanac’ The Arts Desk

Nature Tales for Winter Nights

Edited by Nancy Campbell

A treasure trove of wintry nature tales from storytellers across the globe, bringing a little magic and wonder to every cold night.

PB 3 October 2024

‘A luminous collection of fascinating seasonal tales’ Waterstones

Environomics

by Dharshini David

The perfect introduction to how the global green revolution is transforming our economy –and what that means for our lives, our planet and our wallets.

HB 20 June 2024

‘A brilliant book’ Iain Dale, LBC, on The Almighty Dollar

Her Lotus Year

by Paul French

A historian and New York Times bestselling author examines a controversial and revealing period in the early life of the legendary Wallis Simpson.

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